The depolarization-attenuated backscatter relationship for dust plumes

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 15195-15204

  Zhou, Tian ^a   Huang, Jianping ^a   Huang, Zhongwei ^a   Liu, Jingjing ^a   Wang, Wencai ^a   Lin, Lei ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DEPOLARIZATION; OPTICAL RADAR;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CALIPSO LIDARS; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; MEASUREMENTS OF; PACIFIC OCEAN; SIMPLE METHOD; SPACE-BORNE LIDAR; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT;

DUST;

EID: 84879981559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.015195     Document Type: Article

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